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Michael Awkward's Philadelphia Freedoms captures the energetic contestations over the meanings of racial politics and black identity during the post-King era in the City of Brotherly Love. Looking closely at four cultural moments, he shows how racial trauma and his native city's history have been entwined. He introduces each of these moments with poignant personal memories of the decade in focus and explores representation of African American freedom and oppression from the 1960s to the 1990s. Philadelphia Freedoms explores NBA players' psychic pain dur

Michael Awkward's Philadelphia Freedoms captures the energetic contestations over the meanings of racial politics and black identity during the post-King era in the City of Brotherly Love. Looking closely at four cultural moments, he shows how racial trauma and his native city's history have been entwined. He introduces each of these moments with poignant personal memories of the decade in focus and explores representation of African American freedom and oppression from the 1960s to the 1990s. Philadelphia Freedoms explores NBA players' psychic pain dur

Introduction: Keeping the past in lively memory after King: the traumatic implications of black American oppression -- 'Philadelphia did not burn': quelling riots, deferring hoop dreams in the age of the militant black athlete -- Haunted longings: nostalgic black musical formulations of masculinity and the patriarchal family -- "A 'genuinely Afro-American narrative': Sarah Phillips and the politics of black textual authenticity -- Screening the Beloved novel: on Oprah Winfrey and the protocols of adaptation -- Conclusion: No longer at home?

Introduction: Keeping the past in lively memory after King: the traumatic implications of black American oppression -- 'Philadelphia did not burn': quelling riots, deferring hoop dreams in the age of the militant black athlete -- Haunted longings: nostalgic black musical formulations of masculinity and the patriarchal family -- "A 'genuinely Afro-American narrative': Sarah Phillips and the politics of black textual authenticity -- Screening the Beloved novel: on Oprah Winfrey and the protocols of adaptation -- Conclusion: No longer at home?